<p>There are twelve residential colleges: Saybrook, Branford, Jonathan Edwards, Davenport, Pierson, Calhoun, Berkeley, Trumbull, Timothy Dwight, Silliman, Morse, and Ezra Stiles. Each residential college is like a regular dorm building, except that they each have their own dining hall, library, gym, and other things.
There are other buildings that are inhabited by students but are not colleges. The freshman dorms are Lanman-Wright (Saybrook and Pierson), Durfee (Morse), Farnam (JE), Lawrence (Stiles), Welch (Davenport), Bingham (Calhoun and Trumbull), and Vanderbilt (Berkeley and Branford). (TD and Silliman freshmen live in their residential college.) In addition there are several annexes where some juniors live when there isn’t enough room in their residential college.</p>
<p>College placement is completely random unless you’re the sibling or child of a person who goes or went to Yale. In that case, you can choose the college your relative is in, choose not to be in that college, or have no preference.</p>